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[layerindex-web,10/10] README.md: show how to configure git for sending patches

Message ID 20261018220308.72731-11-tim.orling@konsulko.com
State New
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Series Documentation updates; README files as Markdown | expand

Commit Message

Tim Orling Oct. 18, 2026, 10:03 p.m. UTC 
Contributions go to the yocto-patches mailing list with
'[layerindex-web]' in the subject. Show the git config settings that
make git format-patch and git send-email do that, as the
error-report-web README does, and drop "pull requests", which the list
does not take.

AI-Generated: Claude Opus 5.5
Signed-off-by: Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>
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 README.md | 9 +++++++--
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -508,9 +508,14 @@  The latest version of the code can always be found here:
 
 https://git.yoctoproject.org/layerindex-web/
 
-Contributions are welcome. Please send patches / pull requests to
+Contributions are welcome. Please send patches with git send-email to
 yocto-patches@lists.yoctoproject.org with '[layerindex-web]' in the
-subject.
+subject. To set this up in your clone:
+
+```sh
+git config format.subjectPrefix "layerindex-web][PATCH"
+git config sendemail.to yocto-patches@lists.yoctoproject.org
+```
 
 
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